He went on to be a corporate law associate, where he stayed closeted and used work as an excuse not to date.

But then Lat ditched the corporate job and loosened up while working as a prosecutor in Newark, according to the Details profile.

There, he penned the anonymous blog "Underneath Their Robes," where he dug into the private lives of judges.

After he got outed as the author of the bawdy blog, Lat began rethinking his path for a number of reasons.

"I think part of me then also thought it would be much harder to have the kind of success in the law that I wanted because my mentors, my connections were on the conservative side and yet I'm gay," Lat told Details.

"This is another thing that's very liberating about not being on that lawyer-judge track," he added. "You can be a lot more open about your life."